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Most-mentioned books in r/MachineLearning during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/MachineLearning within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Cover of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning #1

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Christopher M. Bishop

Chris Bishop opens with Bayes' theorem and doesn't let go until three hundred pages of matrices later you understand why a neural network is really just curve-fitting with priors.

4 in 2019
Cover of Cracking the Coding Interview #2

Cracking the Coding Interview

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The book credited with inventing the modern coding interview, argued about like it's also on trial for it.

2 in 2019
Cover of Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow #3

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow

Aurélien Géron

Aurélien Géron's scikit-learn-to-TensorFlow book that data scientists recommend and interviewers weaponize in the same threads.

2 in 2019
Cover of Code Complete #4

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell's seven-hundred-page argument that construction, not design or testing, is where most software quality is actually won or lost.

1 in 2019
Cover of Designing Data-Intensive Applications #5

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann walks backend engineers through every database, queue, and consistency tradeoff they'll eventually get paged about.

1 in 2019
Cover of Introduction to Algorithms #6

Introduction to Algorithms

Thomas H. Cormen

A course syllabus gets posted, and a Redditor recognizes it as nothing but this book's chapter headings in disguise.

1 in 2019
Cover of Refactoring #7

Refactoring

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler's method for restructuring code's internals without anyone outside noticing that anything changed at all.

1 in 2019
Cover of The Mythical Man-Month #8

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Fred Brooks managed IBM's late-1960s OS/360 project, then wrote the book explaining why adding more programmers only made it later.

1 in 2019
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer #9

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

Two working programmers write down the shop habits senior engineers use so junior ones stop reinventing them badly.

1 in 2019